Valve replacement for severe aortic stenosis with low transvalvular gradient and left ventricular ejection fraction exceeding 0.50

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1808-1815

  Tarantini, Giuseppe ^a   Covolo, Elisa ^a   Razzolini, Renato ^a   Bilato, Claudio ^a   Frigo, Anna Chiara ^a   Napodano, Massimo ^a   Favaretto, Enrico ^a   Fraccaro, Chiara ^a   Isabella, Giambattista ^a   Gerosa, Gino ^b   Iliceto, Sabino ^a   Cribier, Alain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of Environmental Medicine and Public Health ^*  (Italy)

^c HÔPITAL CHARLES NICOLLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 79957674299     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.02.057     Document Type: Article

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